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Oracle Apps DBA: Keeping E-Business Suite Alive · Module 1 · What an Apps DBA does, and what Fusion took away

What transfers, and what does not

Lesson 8 of 184 · 3 min

Recovery thinking, change discipline and reading a system under load ALL TRANSFER. TWENTY YEARS OF adop MUSCLE MEMORY DOES NOT. This matters because a career in this market will span the migration, and knowing which half of what you know survives is a planning question rather than a philosophical one. RECOVERY THINKING TRANSFERS COMPLETELY. Knowing that a backup is worthless until restored, that a recovery has a duration somebody must be told, that "we have backups" is not an answer — none of that is about EBS. In SaaS you do not run the restore, and you are still the person who has to know what the provider guarantees and has to have tested a refresh. CHANGE DISCIPLINE TRANSFERS, AND IS ARGUABLY WORTH MORE AFTERWARDS. Test first, have a rollback, know the window, tell people. In SaaS the quarterly update arrives whether or not you are ready — you cannot

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In this module: Module 1 · What an Apps DBA does, and what Fusion took away

  1. 1The job, described honestly
  2. 2Apps DBA versus core DBA
  3. 3Where the DBA role went in FusionFree preview
  4. 4What transfers, and what does not
  5. 5On-premises, IaaS, and the middle ground
  6. 6Who else touches this system
  7. 7What breaks: the estate nobody owned
  8. 8Lab briefing · Describe an estate you have not seen